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Back in 2008, Open English, a company run from Miami that uses online courses to teach English in Latin America, had just a handful of students in Venezuela and three employees. Today the company has more than 50,000 students in 22 Latin American countries and some 2,000 employees.
To fund this meteoric expansion, the founders of Open English — Venezuelans Andrés Moreno and Wilmer Sarmiento and Moreno's American wife, Nicolette — began with $700. Over the last six years, the partners have raised more than $55 million, mostly from private investment and venture capital firms.
Their formula for success? The founders rejected traditional English teaching methods in physical classrooms and developed a system that allows students to tune into live classes every hour of the day from their computers at home, in the office or at school, and learn from native English-speaking teachers who may be based anywhere. Courses stress practical conversations online and the company guarantees fluency after a one-year course, offering six additional months free if students fail to become fluent.
"We wanted to change the way people learn English," said Andrés Moreno, the 30-year-old co-founder and CEO, who halted his training as a mechanical engineer and worked full-time at developing the company with his partners. "And we want students to achieve fluency. Traditionally, students have to drive to an English academy, waste time in traffic, and try to learn from a teacher who is not an native English speaker in a class with 20 students."
Using the Internet, Open English offers classes usually with two or three students and a teacher, interactive videos, other learning aids and personal attention from coaches who phone students regularly to see how they are progressing.
Courses cost an average of $750 per year and students can opt for monthly payments. This is about one-fifth to one-third of what traditional schools charge for small classes or individual instructors, Andrés noted.
"We work at building confidence with our students and encourage them to practice speaking English as much as possible during classes," said Nicolette Moreno, co-founder and chief product officer, who met Andrés in Venezuela while she was working there on a service project. "Students are taught to actively participate in conversations like a job interview, traveling and talking on a conference call," said Nicolette, who previously lived in Los Angles, worked with non-profits to create environmentally friendly products and fight poverty in emerging markets, and was head equity trader at an asset management firm. "Students need to speak English in our classes, even though it is sometimes difficult. They learn through immersion."
Open English has successfully tapped into an enormous, underserved market. Millions of people in Latin America want to learn English to advance in their jobs, work at multinational companies, travel or work overseas and understand the popular music, movies and TV shows they constantly hear in English. Many of them take English courses at public and private schools and learn little if any useful conversational English. While students at private schools for the upper middle class and wealthy often learn foreign languages extremely well from native English-speaking teachers, most people can't afford these schools or courses designed for one or two students.
Students who want to take Open English courses fill out a form on the company's Website and are contacted by an Open English employee from either the Bogota call center (for Spanish speakers) or the Sao Paulo center (Portuguese). Once they sign up, they receive an activation code and instructions and can start classes immediately. Classes last 45 minutes and students can choose basic, intermediate or advanced levels. For beginning students, teachers are bilingual.
While Open English continues to expand in Latin America, the company plans to offer classes in the U.S. in the future, Andrés said.
Success did not arrive overnight for the company's founders. Before setting up Open English, they ran a school that offered English courses in Venezuela to corporate executives with native English-speakers and very small classes. But they found that it was difficult to find native English-speaking teachers who were willing to relocate to Venezuela, so they developed the scalable idea of online courses where these teachers could work from virtually anywhere.
At first, they struggled to find capital to put together their project, quickly using up their own limited funds and obtaining a $10,000 bank loan six months into the project. They presented their business plan to venture capital and private investment firms, but it took about 18 months to obtain the first $400,000. Once potential investors saw that Open English had obtained funds, more money came in.
While Open English had received some money from angel investors, Flybridge Capital Partners, which focuses on providing seed money and early-stage technology investing, was the first institutional investor to take a major stake in the company, starting in the fall of 2012.
"We are very interested in online education and were aggressively exploring possibilities in this area," said Jon Karlen, a general partner at Flybridge's Boston, Mass. office. Flybridge saw an opportunity for Open English to appeal to the large, rising middle class in Latin America, Karlen added, "But what was really unique about the company was Andrés, who is an exceptional entrepreneur and became an outstanding CEO and leader."
Currently the largest investor in Open English, Flybridge sees excellent growth opportunities for the company, in part because there is a huge market and broadband penetration is growing rapidly every year in the region. Flybridge has invested in Open English over three different rounds. Typically, the firm puts a total of $8 million to $12 million in their projects over the life of the investment, Karlen said.
As of today, the company has received more than $55 million from investors like Flybridge, Insight Venture Partners, Kaszek Ventures, LAM Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and angel investors. As the company's operations staff expanded in Miami, the company needed new space and moved into a large, new offices in Coconut Grove in October of 2012.
After developing their system, videos, supplementary materials and software to support online courses, the three founders began promoting Open English in Venezuela five years ago.
They used — and today continue to use — advertising in Spanish and Portuguese that include clever and amusing Internet ads where Andrés and Nicolette have key roles. Andrés plays a student who speaks fluent English thanks to Open English and jokes with his friend who is taking traditional classes, spends hours in traffic to and from class and can hardly utter a phrase in English. Nicolette, who in real life is from Los Angeles, plays "Jenny from California," one of the company's teachers.
After Open English began attracting students in Venezuela, the company moved on to Colombia, Peru and other Latin countries. Currently, Brazil has the largest number of students, followed by Colombia, Venezuela and Peru. Brazil has been one of the fastest-growing markets for the company. Open English started with less than 50 students there in November of 2011 and now has more than 10,000, Andrés said.
Aside from its unconventional Internet English classes, Open English also has an unconventional human relations executive, who the company calls its Director of Happiness.
Alain Lagger, who assumed the new post last October, is responsible for creating a culture of optimism and cooperation in the company. His role includes creating motivational initiatives, team-building activities that emphasize the company's core values, organizing group sessions and personal counseling. "We want people to feel a sense of purpose in their work," Andrés said. "Some work — like call centers — can be tedious and we want to show employees that their jobs have a real purpose, that their work has the power to transform students' lives."
Interviews with Open English students — who range in age from teens to people over 50 — indicate that the convenience of online courses, the ability to practice English in a small class and the availability of teachers and coaches set the company apart from other types of courses.
Diego Fernández Acevedo, a 31-year-old teacher from Bogota, took English classes in school but turned to Open English to gain fluency and studies about one and a half to two hours daily. "I've been studying with Open English for more than six months and I find their small classes and interactive programs very interesting. It is difficult to practice English in the course but the experience is very valuable."
"Learning English is not just one more language" Andrés said. "It's a global communication tool that allows us to be better at work and helps us understand our social surroundings. We're excited that Latin America is being transformed, how people today can start up companies like ours. And Miami is a kind of hub for startups in Latin America."
Read a Q&A with Open English's Nicolette Moreno on The Starting Gate blog here,


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guatemala: focusing in on global europe during americas social forum
In Latin America negotiations are under way on 'Association Agreements' between the EU and countries in Central America, the Andean region and South America. If concluded, these agreements are likely to include extensive trade liberalization deals that focus on opening up services and food sectors, altering intellectual property rules and accessing natural resources (especially precious metals, oil, timber and fisheries).
Bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) with the US have been center stage in Central and Latin America in recent years, and popular resistance to such agreements has been broad, strong and vociferous. But there is considerably less knowledge and understanding about the content and likely impacts of these new proposed deals with the European Union.
what happened?
Friends of the Earth Guatemala / CEIBA, along with other environmental and social movement organizations, took a leadership role at the Americas Social Forum, which took place in Guatemala in October 2008. FoE Guatemala ran a workshop on Global Europe during the forum, which was very well attended: it attracted 80 participants from countries including Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. People came from all walks of life, representing peasant, indigenous, environmental, women, youth, education and health organizations, as well as communities facing conflicts with transnational corporations.
Together, they learned more about the EU's proposed Association Agreements in Latin America, and exchanged information about the impacts of European transnational corporations in the various regions. The activities of three particular European companies - Bayer, Perenco, and Biwater – were also considered in more detail.
The Social Forum took place at the same time as official negotiations on the Central American Association Agreement, presenting an opportunity for FoE Guatemala and other members of ATALC / FoE Latin America and the Caribbean and FoE International to participate in a public mobilization that demonstrated people's opposition to these negotiations.
what changed?
The Global Europe workshop and other activities at the Americas Social Forum were a singificant contribution to ongoing efforts to broaden and strengthen the civil society movement opposing free trade and the EU's Association Agreements.
The mobilization was an important demonstration of the strength and unity of the movement, and drew attention to the impacts that EU policies have on vulnerable communities, such as peasants and Indigenous People.
FoEI's Real World Radio made a special coverage of the workshops organized by FoE groups.
- See pictures of the event.
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To receive the award, chapters must meet specific criteria in five of the following six areas: membership, contributions, education, conservation, youth involvement, and communications. Thirty-two chapters received the award in 2012 for their accomplishments the previous year. These groups showcase the depth of the conservation commitment among Izaak Walton League chapters. (We only have room to list one activity per chapter here.)
- Arlington-Fairfax Chapter (Virginia): Provided $12,000 in college scholarships to students majoring in environmental science.
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chapter (Maryland): Supported six troops of Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Cub Scouts.
- Bill Cook Chapter (Wisconsin): Held several activities for youth, including a Youth Conservation Day, hunter education activities, and various projects with Boy Scouts.
- Brown County Chapter (Wisconsin): Held several community outreach activities, including a Family Conservation Day/Teddy Bear Hunt.
- Central New York Chapter (New York): Engaged over 40 schools and 1300 students in stream monitoring through Project Watershed.
- Des Moines Chapter (Iowa): Organized the Iowa Outdoor Youth EXPO for children and families, as well as sponsoring several other youth events.
- Dwight Lydell Chapter (Michigan)++: Educated the public about invasive species control, Asian carp, and shoreline protection at the Sport & Lakefront Living Show, as well as conducted various other community outreach activities.
- Elgin Chapter (Illinois): Sponsored local Boy Scout and Cub Scout Troops and worked with the youth on conservation and Eagle Scout projects.
- Frederick #1 Chapter (Maryland): Held hunter education classes at which instructors went beyond what is required by the state to educate hunters on outdoor ethics.
- Fredericksburg-Rappahannock Chapter (Virginia): Held regular road-side cleanup and tree planting activities.
- Grand Island Chapter (Nebraska): Sponsored a fishing derby for around 300 youth.
- Hamilton Chapter (Ohio): Served as a major sponsor of Fishing Has No Boundaries, an organization that manages a week-long fishing event for handicapped children.
- Harford County (Maryland): Participated in a volunteer stream and wetland clean-up, contributing to the collection of many tons of trash, recyclables, and tires.
- Kampeska Chapter (South Dakota)++: Participated in Conservation Day at the Bramble Park Zoo; making birdfeeders, handing out bird books, and giving presentations on the League's mission.
- Lincoln Chapter (Nebraska): Conducted many regular and continuing hunter safety and bowhunting workshops, as well as kids outdoors days.
- Lois Green-Sligo Chapter (Maryland): Served as a collection site for seeds for the MD DNR and held educational seminars for scouts on seed collection and planting native species.
- Loudoun County Chapter (Virginia): Ran an anti-poaching reward fund in cooperation with the state fish and game agency and coordinated county-wide hunter education for the VA DGIF.
- McCook Lake Chapter (South Dakota): Provided $10,000 in college scholarships to local students, including four attending South Dakota State University.
- Mountaineer Chapter (West Virginia): Sponsored multiple youth events to teach kids firearm safety, shooting techniques, and shooting range ethics, including how to preserve and use the environment wisely.
- Owatonna Chapter (Minnesota): Worked with an Eagle Scout prospect on the removal of invasive European buckthorn in a local park.
- Rockville Chapter (Maryland): Served as the lead organization in the Great Seneca Watershed project, including performing quarterly SOS testing, monitoring, and training.
- Silverton Chapter (Oregon): Supported the Robert Frost School community garden and bought the school ten pairs of binoculars for its daily bird watching activity.
- Sioux Falls Chapter (South Dakota): Participated in the Sioux Empire Water Festival, providing hands-on displays and printed materials to the approximately 3,000 students ages 9 to 11 and teachers who attended this two-day event.
- Sportsman's Chapter (Maryland): Conducted various activities for youth, including a blue bird workshop, kids fishing derby, and Youth Cast & Blast Day.
- Sunshine Chapter (South Dakota): Held seminars on the outdoors and how to make bird feeders and houses out of recycled materials for approximately 1200 youth and adults.
- Talbot County Chapter (Maryland): Maintained a recycling center for paper and aluminum cans, with the recycling proceeds funding chapter scholarships.
- Tiffin-Seneca County Chapter (Ohio): Provided several activities for youth, including pheasant and rabbit hunts, a city fishing day, a Boy Scout jamboree, and youth hunter safety courses.
- Warren County Chapter (Iowa): Participated in various youth projects, including hunters education, a kids trout fishing clinic, high school trap, and FFA and 4H activities, as well as hosting the Iowa YHEC event.
- Warren County Chapter (Virginia): Engaged in an Anti-Litter Project, picking up trash on 11 miles of road four times, as well as monitoring six streams using 12 certified SOS monitors.
- Wayne County Chapter (Ohio)++: Hosted a Kid's Adventure Camp for youth ages 8-15 to introduce them to conservation and stream monitoring as well as archery and shooting sports.
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- Agua de Manantial San Mateo's personal bottle format is the first product that will soon adopt the short cap
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Lima, July 11, 2011. - As part of its Sustainable Development policy, Backus will soon implement a new technology in plastic bottle cap production, making the caps shorter and therefore reducing plastic consumption by 8% per year, the equivalent of 48 tons.
The adoption of this short cap reduces not just plastic (polypropylene) consumption for caps, but also for PET bottles, since it requires a smaller thread in the bottle's finish. In this case, there is a 5% reduction in the material used, equivalent to 286 tons per year.
The change will be applied to 600 ml Agua de Manantial San Mateo bottles effective in August, and it will be implemented in September in other personal bottle format brands (Guaraná, Viva Backus and Maltin Power). The change will be launched around November for large formats in all products.
The joint investment of Backus and its PET bottle and plastic-cap suppliers adds up to approximately US $800,000, which included adapting the injection, blowing and bottling line processes.
The implementation of this new technology allows the bottling of highly carbonated beverages in both large and small formats at high speed, while keeping sealing levels to guarantee their quality.
Carlos Miranda, Backus' purchasing manager, noted, "In addition to these initiatives of plastic and PET resin usage reduction, since the beginning of the year Backus has managed to lighten the weight of our PET bottles in all our water and soda brands, achieving a reduction of 672 tons of PET resin per year, or 12% of total consumption."
These actions are part of the commitment of Backus Peru, a leader in change among SABMiller's operations in Latin America, to contributing to sustainable development and environment protection.
- The joint investment of Backus and its PET bottle and plastic bottle providers is US $800,000.
- Plastic cap consumption is reduced by 8% per year (48 tons)
- PET resin usage is reduced 5% per year (286 tons)
About Backus:
Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus and Johnston S.A.A., is the leader in the brewery industry in Peru, with five decentralised production plants in Lima, Arequipa, Cusco, Motupe and Pucallpa. We have a portfolio of very well segmented national and international brands that aim for our customers' satisfaction in more than 150,000 points of sale throughout the country. During 2010, Backus registered net sales for S/. 2,676.7 million, contributed S/. 2,004 million in taxes and gave direct employment to more than 1,700 people.
For more information, contact:
Cecilia Quevedo
Backus External Communications - 3113000
Yohana Medina-Lorena Oviedo
222-9491 Extension 235
This SABMiller subsidiary news release has been translated from its local marketlanguage to English language for publication on http://sabmiller.com. We have attempted to provide an accurate translation of the original material but due to the difficulties of translation slight differences may exist.
Note, the news release was first published in its local market on [11/07/2011].


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Until now, watching YouTube videos offline has been an awkward business, possible only with Firefox plugins or similar contraptions. Now, with the help of Creative Commons licenses, this could soon change.
A blog article entitled "YouTube goes Offline" explains the strategy. The video platform wants to promote free content, and in future allow its users to download videos for offline viewing - a wide spread wish amongst YouTube fans that could now be made possible with the use of a Creative Commons license.
YouTube Product Manager Thai Tran writes in the blog; "Many video creators on YouTube want their work to be seen far and wide. They don't mind sharing their work, provided that they get the proper credit." The Creative Commons license is a way of fulfilling both free distribution and the appropriate naming of names. In a post on his blog, Lawrence Lessig, creator of the Commons Licenses welcomes the move by YouTube.
Google partners will be given the choice of offering videos for free or for a small surcharge probably to be paid via Google Checkout, with Google making different licenses available. Google cites various University projects offering free student lectures as examples and some of its commercial partners are experimenting with the possibilities for advertising channels.
On the practical side, YouTube will in future have a "download" button below its videos, with a "My Purchases" tab under "My Videos". Still in the testphase, the whole concept is being discussed here.
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Garage sale season is in full swing right now. I have had a number of garage sales over the years. The last garage sale I had, my mom sent a couple of boxes of things over for us to add to our sale. I was unpacking the one box and at the bottom were vintage tablecloths. I thought they were beautiful. I called my mom and asked her about the tablecloths. She said they were hers and most of them had been wedding presents. I was like "Wow, I have to keep these". There are family heirlooms and over 50 years old. They were in excellent condition.
The tablecloths got me thinking about what else my mom had that might be family heirlooms. The next time I was at my mom's I asked her if she had anything that belonged to her ancestor's. She showed me a vase and told me it had been in my Grandma Bell's family for years. She wasn't sure who had originally owned the vase, but said it came from Ireland. My grandmother, Sarah Lilla Watt Glover Bell, was the daughter of David Watt. His family was from Scotland. Sarah's mother, Catherine McGee, was from Ireland. Was it her mother's, Sarah Jackson McGee? Or possible her grandmother's (Unknown McGee or Elisa (?) Jackson)? I will never know who owned it originally, but I am happy I talked to my mom. I would have never known about the vase if I hadn't asked.
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I read with interest the article about the IKEA monkey and his owner having the door slammed on them.
Finally, an issue has arisen that forces this bunch of overpaid fossils to get off their duffs and actually take action on a situation that they do not approve of.
They are not known to 'accelerate' anything, except maybe keeping growth at a minimum.
This town (City?) has been run by a group of mental midgets for as long as I have been residing here.
They want the City status for financial purposes, yet they want Lindsay to remain a sleepy little retirement community.
Sure, it's a great place to raise your family. However, when your kids graduate high school they have to leave the community to have a life and then return to spend their retirement savings here in this booming metropolis.
(By booming metropolis, I mean 'stagnant little economy kept down by aforementioned mental midgets.')
I hope Mr. Garfield enjoyed his turkey dinner this Christmas. Wouldn't turkey be considered an exotic pet? Let's hope council doesn't propose a bylaw to ban turkeys from Lindsay. Considering the bunch of morons on our council, this would be a motion that would not surprise me.
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The 2013 season supplied early challenges both on and off the field for Central Michigan soccer, which resulted in a team that bonded and grew together to overcome adversity.
"I think the season was full of adversity as a season would have. You had injuries, coaching changes and a very difficult non-conference schedule. I think the thing that held us together was the care and compassion that our team had for each other and focusing on one game at a time," said head coach Peter McGahey.
Central Michigan introduced McGahey as its fifth head coach in program history on January 10. McGahey accepted the job after a successful five-year stint with Minnesota State, posting a record of 74-21-13 (.755 winning percentage) while leading the Mavericks to four appearances in the NCAA Division II Tournament.
Seven months after CMU gained a leader in McGahey, the team tragically lost sophomore midfielder Josie Seebeck in a car accident. The team honored Seebeck throughout the 2013 season by wearing a "JS" patch on its jerseys.
"Josie's passing was a tragic start to the season. I think the resiliency that the team showed each other in terms of their love and care during that difficult time carried into the season," said McGahey.
Just 21 days after the tragedy, the Chippewas opened up their 2013 season against Detroit in front of a packed crowd at the CMU Soccer Complex, reflective of the support the University community expressed for program. During the 1-1 draw, senior midfielder Kaely Schlosser suffered a season ending injury in the 19th minute. Schlosser led the Chippewas in shots with 73 and scored three goals the previous season.
After the home opener against Detroit, the Chippewas experienced a six-game road swing against top national talent which elapsed nearly a month. CMU traveled to No. 12 West Virginia, Pittsburgh, No. 7 Portland, Washington, Indiana and Ohio State. Four of the six teams played during the road trip appeared in the 2013 NCAA Tournament.
During CMU's matchup at Pittsburgh, the Chippewas lost another scoring threat in senior forward Jennifer Gassman due to a season ending injury. Gassman had scored a goal in the home opener against Detroit and ranks 10th all-time in program history in goals scored with 10.
The Chippewas injuries on the scoring attack were felt as CMU was outscored 15-3 in non-conference play. As the season transitioned to MAC play, so did the Chippewas, as the team embraced conference play as a new season with success by posting an 8-3-0 conference record.
Central Michigan's defense grew as the season progressed, as senior goalkeeper Grace Labrecque came in to her own as the starter in net for the remainder of the season. Labrecque played a season for the record books, as she recorded seven shutouts which ranks fifth all-time in program history. The All-MAC Second Team selection ended her career ranked third all-time among career shutouts in CMU soccer history with 11.
Labrecque could not have accomplished the level of success she did in net this season without the help of the Chippewa defensive unit, which ranked second in goals allowed average in MAC play. The defense was headlined by senior Estee Outcalt, who started every game and was named to the All-MAC First Team. One of Outcalt's defining moments of her senior season was when she stopped a sure-fire goal with a header as her heels stood on the goal line. The stop made the difference in CMU's 1-0 victory over Toledo on October 11.
Sophomore Emily Basten, sophomore Michelle Brownlee, sophomore Taylor Potts and freshman Kaitlin Hoomaian also made key contributions on the defensive end for the Chippewas. Hoomaian was named to the All-MAC Freshman Team.
Senior Tory Kinniard, who was named team captain by her teammates, established a strong midfield for the Chippewas along with sophomore Kaelyn Korte and redshirt freshman Eliza Van de Kerkhove. All found the back of the net this season. Junior Emily Cooksey led the Chippewas in shots (38) and shots on goal (19) this season along with being honored with All-MAC Second Team accolades.
Peter McGahey looked for other players to step up to fill the void of losing two top scorers, which is exactly what transpired for the Chippewas during MAC play. Junior Laura Gosse finished first on the team in points and goals with 11 points and five goals. Senior Nicole Samuel, Morgan Wilcoxon and freshman Samantha Maher made impacts, scoring multiple goals. Maher was also named to the All-MAC Freshman team. Samuel delivered the moment of the season, as she lobbed in the game-winning goal in double overtime over Ball State on October 27 on Senior Day.
After the Chippewas posted six shutout wins in its final seven games of the regular season, CMU was awarded the third seed in the 2013 MAC Tournament. Central Michigan hosted sixth-seeded Ball State in the quarterfinals and lost in a heartbreaking 2-1 effort. In fitting fashion, the 2013 season ended on high emotions; the same emotions which melded the 2013 Chippewas into a tight-knit group.
The future looks bright for McGahey's Chippewas, as 10 players who appeared in every game return for next season, including Schlosser and Gassman who will be back for one more year after missing the majority of the 2013 campaign with injuries.


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And the independent assessment has identified that Airedale NHS Foundation Trust had low mortality rates for both weekdays and weekends.
Bridget Fletcher, the trust's chief executive, said: "We are delighted to feature as one of only 12 highly commended trusts in the national 2013 guide.
"This is a fantastic achievement for our staff and recognises the hard work they do every day to make sure the care that patients receive is of the highest quality, provides successful outcomes and is carried out with the same level of safety during the weekend as during the week. Our consistently higher than expected survival rates over the past three years are an indication of our constant focus on providing high standards of safety and quality of care to our patients seven days a week.
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Many are critical and others are just confused about the fine details.
Whether you are a proponent or opponent, the act has touched a nerve.
In considering a school voucher plan, Tennessee's Legislature has created an even bigger stir.
A pair of proposals rapidly moving through the Tennessee General Assembly could potentially divert tax dollars currently allocated to public schools to Islamic private schools, and two Rutherford County senators are raising concerns about the legislation."This is an issue we must address," state Sen. Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) said. "I don't know whether we can simply amend the bill in such a way that will fix the issue at this point."
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CHARLESTON, Ill. – The University of Tennessee at Martin softball team made their second consecutive OVC Tournament championship game appearance, but their quest for their second straight NCAA Tournament fell just short as the Skyhawks fell to No. 6 seed Jacksonville State 2-0 on Sunday afternoon.
The matchup looked familiar from the beginning as either UT Martin (37-20) or Jacksonville State has been the NCAA representative for OVC since 2008 after the Skyhawks won the tournament in 2009 and 2012.
UTM was led with hits by Kayla Wade, Lauren Smith and Casey Vincent, each tallying one respectively.
Vincent toed the rubber for the Skyhawks, tossing five innings and striking out two while allowing two runs. Freshman Autumn Glenn pitched the sixth inning in relief, allowing just one hit.
The Skyhawks placed three players on the All-Tournament team as sophomores Kenzi Tate and Smith along with junior Wade received recognition for the superior play in their six games played. The trio joins Ashleigh Westover (Eastern Illinois), Samantha Stanicek (SIU Edwardsville), Raquel Howes (Eastern Kentucky), Ellyn Troup (Murray State), Mo Ramsey (Murray State), Hayden Crawford (Jacksonville State), Kelci Johnston (Jacksonville State), Krystal Ruth (Jacksonville State and Most Valuable Player Tiffany Harbin (Jacksonville State) on the tournament squad.
"I'm so proud of the way our girls competed throughout this tournament," said UT Martin head coach Donley Canary. "After dropping that first game, it makes for a very difficult path to even get to this point but this group of girls kept fighting and never gave up. When you look at the tournament that Kayla, Kenzi, Lauren and Deven had, you can't help but be proud of those girls as they produced through the entire tournament. Look at Casey as she fought through an injury and completely gave her all for her team. Our group of seniors held the team together through the ups and downs of the season to bring us to this point and I tip my hat to Becca, Leah, and Katie. Our team is young and I believe they will get the taste of what championship play is like and we'll be back."
The Skyhawks and Gamecocks were locked in a strong pitchers' duel from the beginning of the OVC Championship game. Neither pitcher yielded it's first hit until the fourth inning as the Gamecocks' Savannah Sloan led off with a single through the left side.
Vincent held tough for the Skyhawks as JSU stayed scoreless until the bottom of the fifth when the home team on the scoreboard began the game with a single into left field. The Gamecocks would move the runners with a sacrifice bunt before the first baserunner crossed the plate on a wild pitch giving JSU the 1-0 lead.
Kayla Wade led off the top of the sixth with a single into left field. Leah Taylor laid down a well-placed sacrifice bunt moving the speedster into scoring position with one out. Wade would eventually move to third base before being stranded to end the inning.
The Gamecocks would add another run in the bottom of the sixth as a solo home run down the left field line chased Vincent from the game and gave JSU the eventual ending result of 2-0.


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They did want to install ImageMagick so I looked @ perl but I found the following solution for PHP.
Go to you php.ini and activate :
safe_mode_exec_dir = /some/path/to/dir
After setting up the directory take the following step :
cp /usr/local/bin/mogrify /some/path/to/dir
Set the User and Group to the "webuser" and do "chmod -R 711 /some/path/to/dir" to protect it from users who are not allowed to know ;) .
Done this ? Then you can use the following line (well at least I did :)) :
<? system("mogrify -resize ".$w."x".$h." ".$the_file." "); ?>
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Decatur Welcomes Obama
On Thursday, the president visited the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center and made remarks at the Decatur Recreation Center.
See our gallery of photos and add your own. Read more on Decatur Patch.
Douglas County No. 1 in State for Foreclosures
Douglas County is number one in Georgia for foreclosures, after a 44.63 percent increase in the number of foreclosure filings from December 2012 to January 2013, according to data released Wednesday by RealtyTrac.
One in every 200 housing units in the county had a foreclosure filing last month, which is up 10.82 percent from January 2012, according to the Douglas County Sentinel. Read more on Douglasville Patch.
Carjacking and Armed Robbery in Grant Park
The Grant Park Security Patrol reported that a carjcacking and pedestrian robbery occurred at about 8:20 p.m. on Feb. 13.
The carjacking happened on Rosalia Street SE off Boulevard.
The victim told police he was working on his silver/gray 2002 Volkswagen Passat station wagon that was parked on Rosalia and as he sat in the driver's seat, a man pointed a black handgun at him and ordered him out of the car. Read more on East Atlanta Patch.


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Islam in America Vignettes:
1893 New York City Muezzin
By Precious Rasheeda Muhammad
A snapshot from the New York Times December 11, 1893
August 31, 2007 | On December 10, 1893 at 11AM, the Muslim call to prayer (adhan), called five times a day throughout the world wherever praying Muslims are found, could be heard three stories above New York City's famed Union Square. This was the same call, which, by the appointment of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), had been first called and perfected centuries before by Bilal the Abyssinian ex-slave and reportedly seventh person to embrace Islam. The "melodious" call, carefully documented in a 200-plus word New York Times article published December 11, 1893, came from the third-story window of the Union Square Bank building at 8 Union Square East. This building faced Union Square where, among many other remarkable events, 250,000 people once rallied for the North at the start of the Civil War (1861); where Emma Goldman, the anarchist activist against poverty, injustice, and oppression, once told a crowd of 3000 unemployed, "Go into the streets where the rich dwell. Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread." (1893); and where, in the agonizing weeks immediately following September 11, people from all walks of life gathered to reflect, mourn, and pray for peace (2001). Appropriately then, it would be in such a place of historic precedence, with regard to collective action, that one of the earliest documented Islamic calls to congregational prayer in the history of the United States would take place.
John Lant, the muezzin (one who calls the adhan), was affiliated with the Islamic outreach programs of the nineteenth century statesman Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, the first known white American convert to Islam. In the Timesarticle, Lant is described as "…like Muhammed [Mohammed] Alexander Webb…a devout follower of Islam." At the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions hosted in Chicago, today "recognized as the occasion of the birth of formal interreligious dialogue worldwide," Webb was the main representative for Islam. He gave two lectures, one titled "The Spirit of Islam" and the other "The Influence of Islam on Social Conditions." Muslims passing through New York City from the Chicago World's Fair, which the World's Parliament of Religions intentionally ran somewhat parallel with to maximize the number of participants from around the world, were also present that December morning. Congregational prayer followed the adhan. The inaugural meeting of the Society for the Study of Islam—likely one of the several study groups Webb established in the United States—ensued with a key address by Emin L. Nabakoff, another Muslim affiliated with Webb who later became his successor. The congregation ended with a discussion on "Islam in America."
Whether awe-inspiring or ire-inspiring, several adhans, and the history behind them, have caught the attention of the American public for some time now and have been documented in diverse ways from oral history to a complete media circus such as in the following stories.
There is the adhan that is called once a day for a week from the steps of Widener Library—the world's largest academic library and also home to one of the world's rare Gutenberg Bibles. A member of Harvard Islamic Society calls this adhan during their yearly Islam Awareness Week. A Harvard professor once shared with the author of today's article how she was sitting in her office when the adhan was called and the sound resonated so sonorously throughout Harvard Yard that it seemed the birds even stood still.
There is the two-minute adhan broadcast over loudspeakers requested by the Bangladeshi Al-Islah Mosque—in the once majority Polish and Roman Catholic city of Hamtramck, Michigan—that made international news, set off a national debate, and even ignited protests from, among many others, the National Alliance, a white nationalist and white separatist organization. In May 2004, Al-Islah began broadcasting the adhan daily after an unanimous vote from the City Council and a majority vote from residents on an amendment to Hamtramck's noise ordinance, which would "permit 'call to prayer,' 'church bells' and other reasonable means of announcing religious meetings to be amplified between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. for a duration not to exceed 5 minutes."
And then there is the goose-bump inducing adhan at the beginning of the Emmy-Award nominated ESPN short feature on the nearly undefeated Lady Caliphs basketball team of W.D. Mohammed High School in Atlanta, Georgia. As the call to prayer is heard, a resonant voice over announces, "…it's a call to prayer that starts in Mecca, half a world a way, but is answered here, in a gym near downtown Atlanta, by a team of young women and their coach." The clip goes on to show how these young African American Muslim girls played on to victory despite the constant taunting and hatred they endured because of their religious beliefs and modest uniforms, which included long sweatpants and headscarves.
These three represent only a handful of the adhans that have made it into the American public square and historical record. But the 1893 Union Square Bank building adhan is possibly the most significant as it is likely one of the earliest, and one of the most detailed, documented occurrences of the adhan in the history of the United States. It was located in the city know today as "the capital of the world" and was documented in the newspaper known as much for its slogan "All the News That's Fit To Print" as it is for the idea that it is "the nation's newspaper of record." Moreover, there were Muslims present who were either from other parts of the country or the world making it more of a national or international event. Perhaps most notably, it was affiliated with supporters of Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb who was identified in the August 6, 1893 New York Times as "the first American to take interest in Mohammedanism [Islam] and introduce it into this country" and in the September 20, 1893 Chicago Daily as "the head of the Mohammedan or Islamic religion in this country." Webb started the earliest documented mosque in U.S. history (in the Moslem World Building, 1893), the earliest known Islamic institution in New York (the American Moslem Brotherhood, 1893), and the first Islamic publishing company in the United States (the Oriental Publishing Company, 1893).
While non-Muslim's exposure to the Muslim call to prayer may sometimes be seen as an encroachment on American culture, as in Hamtramck, Michigan, it was not the case in New York City, 1893. In fact, the 1893 Times reporter found it surprising that "…cosmopolitan as the city is " the "…call of the Muezzin" had only just happened "for the first time in New-York's history."
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